My Message to the Linked Charge for Oct/Nov
The wheel of the
year continues to turn, summer has past and now the dark nights and cold of
winter looms on the horizon. But we still have the autumn to enjoy, to watch
the turning of the leaves and the cycle of the seasons, as those cycles of life and death, of parting
and greeting, of sorrow and joy come and go. What we often miss as we observe
all of this is that we ourselves are part of those cycles, that we also belong,
that we are part of the circle of life.
“Life is a circle and we as common people are created to
stand within it and not on it.”
We as individuals are part of this circle and in every
person we meet, we can see roots, destinations, resources, choices,
possibilities and relations, and if we can recognize ourselves in others, then
we can see that every being on this earth is a member of our global human
family.
In the past few weeks we have been witness to dreadful
scenes in our newspapers and televisions as members of that global family
struggle to find safety and peace and to run from the conflict and oppression
that threatens to overwhelm them.
As Christians we are asked to ‘serve’ and to ‘love’ to be ‘the
servant of all’ and to ‘love God… and our neighbour as ourselves’
and today this means standing up and being counted, it means standing firmly within
the circle to which we belong, it means
that when we see injustice, when we see cruelty, when we are made aware
of the plight of others within our human family we are bound as followers of
Christ to do what we can. At each Eucharist we say these words:
“Made one with him, we offer you these gifts and with
them ourselves, a single, holy, living sacrifice”
May it be so!
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